Kingdom Alvey Quotes & Sayings

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding. — Ali Farahnakian

It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in terms of profits and my country recently went to war due to oil pricing. What does that say they will do to keep this other industry in tact? It is up to patients and their families to question what they are being given, and to consumers to demand better, more natural alternatives. — Margot Kidder

To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving. — Debasish Mridha

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey

There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. — Margaret Atwood

Give love, take pride — Benny Bellamacina

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach ... I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count. — Joan Didion

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. — David Bowie

Bickering. It's so much uglier than a heated, dish-smashing fight, isn't it? — Jessica Knoll

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce

Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact, you can wear it in the most bitter weather or in the hottest heat. Polar fleece looks neither flimsy and light nor hearty and warm. It has no historical, cultural, or physical association with a place, a season, a society, or any living thing. It is the first existential fabric - eminentaly useful, meaningless, dissociated and weird. — Mary Ruefle

I will work when failures seek rest. — Og Mandino

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working! — Timothy Keller

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core. — Sarah Dessen

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful. — Katherine Paterson